An overview of how different media industries work together.

70 years ago it was unusual for a household to have a TV, now 96% of UK homes have one.

In the UK alone, there are approximately 8000 different magazine titles for general sale.

Advertising can be presented in many forms; from TV adverts, to radio jingles, to internet pop ups and billboards.

Film is one of the oldest media industries as well as a major global business making billions each year.

How we buy and consume music has changed over the years. These days, we’re most likely to purchase digital downloads and listen to digital audio files.

Every day hundreds of different newspapers are published. The content and layout of each newspaper reflects its target readership.

Radio has evolved dramatically since it began in the 1920s.

Websites, like video games, offers one key feature which distinguishes them from other media texts: interactivity.

The computer and video games industry is one of the newest and most rapidly expanding media industries.